Transdisciplinary, involving i) critical indigenous qualitative methodologies, as applied via his decades-long Rethinking Indigeneity project http://ccms.ukzn.ac.za/projects/rethinking-indigeneity.aspx ; ii) Media Cities, in which film services are examined as generators of local development; and iii) critique of neoliberalism in tertiary education http://ccms.ukzn.ac.za/publications/ukzn-griot.aspx . In addition, he is editor of Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies and co-editor of Journal of African Cinemas. He is a member of the Academy of Science for South Africa, contributes to programmes at the AFDA Film School, has written extensively on the South African film Industry, and acted as a script consultant.

His new stomping ground in China where he has been hosted by numerous universities and academies, and conferences at which he has been a keynote speaker.

I intend, as Minister Blade Nzamande, Higher Education and Training urges productive academics, to continue doing research at least until I am 80. That’s quite close, or a long way off, depending on the relativity of space and time.